The Obama administration institutionalized a global killing apparatus that is unaccountable to the judiciary, and only nominally accountable to Congress. If US citizens aren't always entitled to due process, what limits will there be on attacks on non-citizens, especially under a Trump presidency?

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The Illinois Department of Corrections has finally begun the process of closing down Stateville Correctional Center's roach-infested F-House, the last surviving panopticon -- a building where prisoners are subjected to 24-hour surveillance.

Under financialized capitalism, the private vice of greed is no longer magically converted into a public virtue -- depriving capitalism even of its last, consequentialist moral justification. Stylizing owners and managers of capital as trustees of society has lost any remaining credibility.

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